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Thursday, June 13. 2019

Thursday morning links

 Budweiser's Father's Day campaign celebrates stepdads with emotional film


 LGBTQ Bigotry: Tyranny Masquerading as Tolerance


UK climate goals: Why sell it when they can just force the peasants to do this?


Joy Behar: Global Warming Could Stop Biden from Curing Cancer


 How Long Can The Media Ignore The Fact That A Senior House Democrat Is Married To A Fraudster?


Forever 


‘American Jews Forgot To Tell Their Children’ - New documentary on Natan and Avital Sharansky revives the inspiring story of the heroes of the refusenik movement.


 Are the Central Park Five really all that innocent?


 DOJ antitrust chief warns Big Tech that low prices or free products won't protect them


 Twitter Suspends Project Veritas' Account for Revealing the Politically Biased Censorship at Pinterest


 Ocasio-Cortez Defends A $4,500 Pay Raise For Herself: ‘It’s Not Even Like A Raise’


 African Migrants Flood The Texas Border, Crisis Is “Off The Charts”


Trump Points Out the Obvious on Border Security


 Dem Rep. Marcia Fudge: “Trump Supporters Are Either Racist, Religious, Ignorant, Or Dumb”…


Damn, she nailed me 


Rabobank: "All The Experts Who Were Mocking Trump Are Suddenly Quiet"


 WINNING! Foxconn Plans Increase In US Manufacturing Thanks To Trump Tariffs


 It Started With a Lie: Bruce Ohr’s Linchpin Role in Russiagate.


 John Durham Questioning CIA Officials About Intelligence Community Assessment…


 Confirmed: The State Department and a Leading Democrat Worked on Dossier Documents Provided by Christopher Steele


 Mueller’s ‘Pit Bull’ Andrew Weissmann Meets His Match — General Flynn Hires Top Attorney and Weissmann Critic Sidney Powell


 The Underground Arms Race in the Middle East

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The Central Park Five scandal was worth tearing into, because we should never tolerate biased prosecutions that rush to judgment for headlines and political points. Whatever else was wrong with the botched prosecution, it kept a cold-blooded rapist and attempted murderer from being apprehended and imprisoned for this particular crime. But I can't find any way to look at the Central Park Five that makes me wish they hadn't been thrown into jail for the things they actually admitted doing. If there are sad victims here, they ain't it. The little turds needed to be off the streets, and fast.
#1 Texan99 on 2019-06-13 09:43 (Reply)
The documentary you refer to was a blatant hoax full of lies.
Read the DA's comments on this:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/06/linda-fairstein-speaks-in-her-own-defense-after-netflix-central-park-five-controversy/

Yes, we now know that the Central Park five were merely just beating people for racist reasons and robbing them in the process; something that now a days just doesn't seem that bad, right? But what you don't know and the documentary hid from you is the evidence against them was that they did indeed rob and beat the Central park jogger. They may have raped her, their own statements imply that they did. They may not have killed her, but they certainly tried to by beating her senseless. Look at the evidence not the documentary that was clearly biased and racists.
#1.1 OneGuy on 2019-06-13 10:12 (Reply)
Were you replying to me or to the original post? It seems we agree: the prosecution rushed to judgment and missed one really bad guy whose guilt appeared only much later. But the maligned "Five" had admittedly been up to plenty that night, attacking other people and even apparently participating in the attack on the most highly publicized young woman who was beaten nearly to death.

Sloppy prosecution might have resulted in a serious miscarriage of justice and never should be tolerated. In this case, it more or less lucked out, and at worst missed one really bad guy while nabbing five pretty bad guys.
#1.1.1 Texan99 on 2019-06-13 18:55 (Reply)
It sounds like Netflix got all the production tips and writers from Ken Burns and his revisited "Viet Nam" series carried by NPR. There is no longer any history...only Hollywood history that would be approved through the Zinn history archives.
#1.2 indyjonesouthere on 2019-06-13 11:31 (Reply)
it goes back to the first OJ Trial: "If you ignore all of the evidence against the defendant, the prosecution's whole case falls apart."
#1.2.1 Another Guy named Dan on 2019-06-13 12:57 (Reply)
Just a damn shame the filmmaker left out these excerpts from the NYPD Interrogation video:

Antron McCray: “We charged her. We got her on the ground. Everybody started hitting her and stuff. She was on the ground. Everybody stomping and everything. Then we got, each — I grabbed one arm, some other kid grabbed one arm, and we grabbed her legs and stuff. Then we all took turns getting on her, getting on top of her.”

Kevin Richardson: “Raymond [Santana] had her arms, and Steve [Lopez, who accepted a plea bargain rather than face trial] had her legs. He spread it out. And Antron [McCray] got on top, took her panties off.”

Raymond Santana: “He was smacking her. He was saying, ‘Shut up, bitch!’ Just smacking her…. I was grabbing the lady’s tits.”

Kharey Wise: “This was my first rape.”

When investigators at one point asked the fifth suspect, Yusef Salaam, why he had tried to smash the victim's skull, he replied, “It was fun.”
#1.2.1.1 Scullman on 2019-06-13 13:07 (Reply)
African Migrants Flood The Texas Border:

Have you begun to believe that this is all coordinated and in fact it is an invasion? It is well known that Soros is funding some of the invasion but what are the odds that China or Russia are involved as well? Cuba, with a long association with Russia being their surrogate, has become more active lately in Central and South America.

Notice also that Mexico took action against a couple dozen activists and organizations that are involved in pushing the immigration/invasion but for some reason they don't want to tell us who they are. What are they hiding.
#2 Anon on 2019-06-13 10:03 (Reply)
I believe it. Definitely a coordinated effort. But, I also want all my change, and won’t hesitate to pick up a penny off the street. And I don’t believe in man made climate change. I believe that Jesus is the son of God; he died on the cross to save mankind. I believe in all kinds of crazy things.
#2.1 B. Hammer on 2019-06-13 10:29 (Reply)
Why aren't we quarantining them for 21 days? Do we know that Africans crossing our border do not have ebola or other exotic diseases? We already know that many of these illegal border crossers from Central America have serious communicable diseases. Why aren't we demanding a quarantine period???
#2.2 OneGuy on 2019-06-13 16:35 (Reply)
The Sharansky's, and Jews telling their children: The phrase "Never Again" was rapidly co-opted by liberals, socialists, and communists to mean something slightly different and more to their liking. It quickly stopped meaning "Never again will we allow genocide" to "Never again will support anything we can call right-wing." And so tradition is preserved, but emptied of its meaning.
#3 Assistant Village Idiot on 2019-06-13 11:36 (Reply)
Top ten things that Bill Nye the Science Guy thinks are cool:

1) Sodomy
2) Selling baby parts
3) Fornicating with robots
4) Sodomizing robots
5) Tyler the Creator, necrophilia rapper
6) Voyeurism of fornication with robots
7) Transgenderism
8) Putting "climate deniers" in jail
9) Voyeurism of fornication with robots while wearing sad clown makeup.
10) Clown sodomy
#4 Rusty on 2019-06-13 11:48 (Reply)
Re Budweiser: Sorry, I don't drink beer made by a company that won't stand for the National Anthem, no matter how woke they are.
#5 snopercod on 2019-06-13 13:14 (Reply)
You're on safe ground, there. Their national pride isn't real and neither is their beer.
#5.1 Aggie on 2019-06-13 14:54 (Reply)
QUOTE:
Their national pride isn't real and neither is their beer.

There's an ad campaign in there somewhere!
#5.1.1 Bill Carson on 2019-06-13 16:31 (Reply)
Bud has blown away many years of good advertising. And the customers who liked it. They might as well have shot all their Clydesdales.
#5.2 Sam L. on 2019-06-13 21:31 (Reply)
This story will leave you speechless:
https://www.weaselzippers.us/423286-kmart-bans-customers-using-religious-words-such-as-jesus-or-church-at-its-photo-printing-kiosks-but-islam-and-koran-allowed/
#6 Anon on 2019-06-13 16:53 (Reply)
Interesting read here regarding AI and nudging as it pertains to a programming of a generation unable to . . .
#7 faculty wife on 2019-06-13 18:25 (Reply)
Just heard that Sarah Sanders Huckabee is stepping down as WH press secretary (announced today June 13). There is something worrisome going on down there. A former Republican state legislator from ARK was shot and killed more than a week ago, but it does not appear that the media picked up the story for at least several days.Two days later a Republican state legislator from OK (less than 500 miles away) was shot and killed--there appears to have been a delay in reporting that event also. No suspects have been reported. A local judge in ARK ordered that no information about the police investigation could be reported to the public -- that was in Arkansas. That does not mean that the story could not be reported as an ongoing investigation. I am curious as to why the delay in reporting each of these stories and what does this have to do with Sara stepping down today? I hate co-incidences!
#8 Apple Pie on 2019-06-13 19:11 (Reply)
Sarah Sanders is smart, capable and understands Washington. I think after Trump's second term she should run for president. She is head and shoulders above the two dozen Democrat candidates.
#8.1 Anon on 2019-06-14 10:29 (Reply)
Gateway Pundit links should come with a warning. Their content is very good. Their ads are horribly intrusive, sometimes grotesque, and distracting.
#9 Javelineer on 2019-06-13 19:52 (Reply)

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